Politics

Gearing up to report this year’s midterm election results, American television networks are facing an uncomfortable question: How many viewers will believe them?Amid rampant distrust in the news media and a rash...

MILWAUKEE — Democrats and Republicans raced on Saturday into the final stretch of more than a dozen competitive contests for governor, as the G.O.P. moves within striking distance of flipping the top...

GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — At a hearing in the U.S.S. Cole bombing case this week, a retired F.B.I. agent described what three Yemeni eyewitnesses had told investigators 20 years ago after the...

CLEVELAND — When Tim Ryan speaks to Democratic crowds in the closing days of the Ohio Senate race, his biggest applause line is about the other team.A Republican official in a “deep-red...

Speaking at a political event in Pennsylvania, President Biden said on Friday that he had spoken to Ms. Pelosi to “send our love,” and that she relayed that her husband was “coming...

WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department said on Friday that the deputy commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, Douglas O’Donnell, would become the acting commissioner next month when Charles P. Rettig’s term ends,...

Steven Mnuchin, who was Treasury secretary under President Donald J. Trump, moved faster than previously known to obtain billions of dollars in investments from Persian Gulf royal families after leaving government, two...

Three days after federal agents seized his cellphone as part of an investigation into voting machine tampering, Mike Lindell seemed energized and ready to sell pillows.He strode onstage at a rally of...

MIDDLETOWN, Ohio — Blue jeans evoked his hardscrabble upbringing, and a crisp dress shirt conveyed his success as a Yale Law School graduate, venture capitalist and best-selling memoirist — with the open...

In their only scheduled debate, Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York and her challenger, Representative Lee Zeldin, quarreled intensely on Tuesday over divisive issues such as rising crime and abortion access, while...